Awww, Dad!
I make no apologies. I’m an overprotective dad. I mean, just look at what I write for a living. Because of the research I do in order to write those books, I know crap that you should be freakin’ ecstatic that you don’t know. I’m dead serious. Some of the sh*t I’ve learned about sociopaths wakes me up in the middle of the night, drenched in a cold sweat and reaching for the Glock in the nightstand.
THAT’S why I’m an overprotective dad…
Still, that doesn’t mean I’m not a bit silly too. After all, it’s a moral imperative. Dads are supposed to embarrass their kids. It’s an inalienable right. It’s handed out to you the minute you become a father. Trust me. It’s in the paperwork. No kidding.
And so it came to pass that coldness crept into our city as winter descended upon us. And with said cold came bundling up when walking the child to school – what with being an overprotective dad and all, not to mention that I’m wheels down and about to do a three point on that half-century mark, so the doc wants me to exercise. I sit on my ass all day, slinging words, so my fingers are getting all the workout.
But I digress…
Like I said, so it came to pass, and with it passing came the following conversation:
“Do I look sufficiently weird?” I asked.
E K looked me up and down. “Oh yeah…”
“O-SPRING!” I yelled. “Time To GO!”
(thumpita, thumpita, thumpita… came the child down the stairs.)
Around the corner the O-spring came, then screeched to halt, staring at me. Then she moaned, “Daaahhhh-ahhhhhhhhddddddd!”
“What?” I asked.
“You’re wearing THAT to walk me to school?”
“Yeah. Why?”
“Daaahhhh-ahhhhhhhhddddddd!” she moaned again, rolling her eyes in the process.
“What? Do I embarrass you?”
“Well, yeah…” she replied.
“Good,” I told her, suddenly channeling Macaulay Culkin from the movie Uncle Buck, in a paraphrased sense, of course: “I’m a dad. It’s my job.”
And so off we went. I trailed along behind at a short distance… Until we got close to the school, of course. Then I closed the gap. I had to make sure all of her friends knew I was her dad…
ANATOMY OF AN EMBARRASSING DAD
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Murv
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Now I know why my other half dresses the way he does hehehe…Now to show this to Jenn, She will agree that this looks like her dad only he has red hair lol
Awww, your missing the chain saw.
You look like the “before” picture on one of those makeover episodes on Rachael Ray! Love it. Torture the child some more, it’s good for her character. Think of the fond memories she’ll have of how much you cared about her rep with her friends!
I think the cherry on top is the, “Wuh?” look on your face.
When the hubsters heard my uncontrolled giggling he peeped over my shoulder and said, “Looks like EK isn’t the only Evil one in the house.”
ROFL! I learned it all from her.
Excluding the facial hair, that is scarily similar to a typical outfit my mom would wear when I was younger.